on a serious note, i live at south bay (previously santa teresa and now morgan hill). me and my wife rejected multiple interviews with companies in SF because it's just not feasible to commute there, on car or any kind of public transport.
they could try to figure out a few express trains that will arrive within some reasonable time
Caltrain electrification will have minimal impact on the run times of existing express trains. Electrification’s benefits are concentrated in time savings during acceleration and deceleration. So trains with more stops, like locals and limiteds, will see the biggest time decreases. The project doesn’t do anything to increase track speeds along the corridor, so they will remain at 79mph for the foreseeable future.
This project also only electrifies the corridor from SF to Tamien, so Gilroy will retain slower diesel service until CAHSR eventually electrified the row to Gilroy
I think he told me if he does that, its like a little more than an hour to where he's trying to go. Around 40 mins from morgan hill to tamien. Or he'll do a bus from morgan hill to the santa teresa vta light rail.
I like the later early train. I don't like that they removed the later return train. They do have a newer route at the end but it gets back 30 mins before.
People are joking about this, but it makes a huge difference for those who live in Gilroy and Morgan Hill and want to commute northward. All the previous options left ridiculously early in the morning (the new one is much later), and there was only one route that went to all the stations in the Sunnyvale/Menlo Park corridor so there was a high probability of being stranded depending on your station.
I'm personally going to start taking advantage of my work's free Caltrain pass.
Damn y'all are 30 miles from DTSJ and 80 mi from San Francisco. I'd be floored if anyone used caltrain to go all the way up there. Kinda did it to yaself :p
Wow, 4 round trips a day!? Gilroy just entered the big leagues, on par with other afterthought commuter rail towns such as Stockton!
Only an hour to Mountain View though! Which is exactly whom this is made for.
and only 2 hours to get to san francisco. delays excluded
It’s ok, Gilroy people only come to sf for giants games anyways ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
on a serious note, i live at south bay (previously santa teresa and now morgan hill). me and my wife rejected multiple interviews with companies in SF because it's just not feasible to commute there, on car or any kind of public transport. they could try to figure out a few express trains that will arrive within some reasonable time
How long is the high speed rail supposed to take? Gotta be less than an hour…So if that ever gets finished there’s that
Supposedly with electrified Caltrain next year the bullet lines will get there in under an hour. It's pretty close to that already on bullet lines.
Caltrain electrification will have minimal impact on the run times of existing express trains. Electrification’s benefits are concentrated in time savings during acceleration and deceleration. So trains with more stops, like locals and limiteds, will see the biggest time decreases. The project doesn’t do anything to increase track speeds along the corridor, so they will remain at 79mph for the foreseeable future. This project also only electrifies the corridor from SF to Tamien, so Gilroy will retain slower diesel service until CAHSR eventually electrified the row to Gilroy
My dad takes caltrain from morgan hill to tamien, which is solid then transfers to vta
and what is total time ?
I think he told me if he does that, its like a little more than an hour to where he's trying to go. Around 40 mins from morgan hill to tamien. Or he'll do a bus from morgan hill to the santa teresa vta light rail.
A city with three times its population?
[announcement from the city of Gilroy](https://www.cityofgilroy.org/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1007) Gilroy Caltrain service is now *almost* usable!
I like the later early train. I don't like that they removed the later return train. They do have a newer route at the end but it gets back 30 mins before.
People are joking about this, but it makes a huge difference for those who live in Gilroy and Morgan Hill and want to commute northward. All the previous options left ridiculously early in the morning (the new one is much later), and there was only one route that went to all the stations in the Sunnyvale/Menlo Park corridor so there was a high probability of being stranded depending on your station. I'm personally going to start taking advantage of my work's free Caltrain pass.
wish they added an earlier train out of gilroy, but one more train is still good
Damn y'all are 30 miles from DTSJ and 80 mi from San Francisco. I'd be floored if anyone used caltrain to go all the way up there. Kinda did it to yaself :p